On Jan. 27, 1967, NASA experienced its first space disaster - the deaths of three astronauts during a training excercise for the Apollo 1 mission. Pictured are the three Apollo 1 prime crewmembers ...

But tragically, the three astronauts slated to fly Apollo 1, Grissom, White and Chaffee, were performing a launch rehearsal test inside the new three-person module on the one-year anniversary of ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. These three astronauts lost their lives in the Apollo 1 fire. NASA The ...

In 1961, as the Space Race between the USA and Soviet Union was really heating up, President John F Kennedy surprised his nation - and the world - by announcing that within the decade, America ...

Apollo 1’s crew knew their ship could never reach the Moon. It was never meant to. The barebones ‘Block 1’ spacecraft, intended only for Earth-orbital tests, had none of the navigational ...

"We covered a little bit of Apollo 1 in that film because Gene Cernan and the Chaffees were next-door neighbors, and Gene looked after Martha and the family for a while afterwards, so it was relevant.

It was also one week after the legendary astronaut had agreed to give us an interview to discuss the Apollo 1 tragedy, a turning point in U.S. space history in which Borman played a key role.

A fire in the Apollo 1 command capsule during a countdown test Jan. 27, 1967, killed three astronauts. National Air and Space Museum On his last visit home to Texas on Jan. 22, 1967, astronaut ...

Mueller, announced that the mission originally scheduled for Grissom, White and Chaffee would be known as Apollo 1. NASA honors the Apollo 1 astronauts, and all other fallen astronauts on January ...

Terrifying audio has resurfaced from inside the space capsule during the Apollo 1 disaster. Apollo 1 became one most infamous space race disasters in which three astronauts lost their lives in a ...

From the Apollo 1 tragedy to the moon landing and Apollo 13’s near-failure, this is the real story behind mankind’s greatest leap. Mark Cuban Optimistic New Trump Order Could Save 'Hundreds of ...